The Impact Of Loneliness And Social Support Status Among College Students On The Subjective Well-being

Purpose:This is to Study the impact of loneliness and social support among college students on the subjective well- being and the relations, then to further probe into the factors on SWB of college students.Methods:The study mainly adopted the methods of questionnaires and interviews. There were 10 items in" Social Support Rating Scale", including the objective support, subjective support and utilization of social support in three dimensions; there were 12 entries in "Perceived Social Support Scale", including family support, friend support and other support three dimensions;" UCLA Loneliness Scale " contained 11 positive sequence entries of "Loneliness" and 9 reverse order entries of "non-loneliness"; "subjective well-being Scale" contained 19 entries, including three subscales---the overall life satisfaction, degree of positive effect and negative effect; and a completely open and unstructured interviews.Objects:The objects were 1,200 undergraduates selected from Suzhou University, Chaohu College and Hefei University of Technology.998 questionnaires were returned and the rate of recovery was 83.2%,8 invalid questionnaires were excluded, a total of 990 valid questionnaires, and the effective rate was 99.2%, of which 350 of Suzhou University,307 of Chaohu College,333 of Hefei University of Technology; of which 524 were boys, accounting for 52.9%; girls 466, accounting for 47.1%, with an average age of 20.55 years.Conclusions:(1)The life satisfaction of college students was slightly lower than the middle level.(2) College students'SWB and its dimensions were influenced by sex, majors, the only child or not, priority universities or not, grade, monthly income of family and so on. In life satisfaction, general happiness girls were significantly higher than boys, while the negative emotion was significantly lower than boys; arts students in life satisfaction, general happiness were significantly higher than the engineer students, the positive affect was significantly higher than that of science students; urban students in life satisfaction, general happiness were significantly higher than that of the extremely rural students, the positive emotional was significantly higher than rural students; The only child in life satisfaction, general well-being was significantly higher than the non only child; the SWB of College Students in the priority universities and colleges was significantly higher than that of the newly-rising ones; freshmen were significantly higher than the sophomore and juniors were significantly higher than the sophomores; there's tendency in SWB that the more the monthly income of family the higher the SWB.(3) There are various impacts of different sources of social support on SWB of college students, of which subjective support, utilization of support, friend support, and other support have the most influences on college students'SWB.(4) Loneliness was significantly negatively related to subjective well-being, life satisfaction and positive effect and was positively related to negative emotions.(5) There's potential relationship among social support, loneliness and subjective well-being of College students, in which loneliness as an intennediary variable had an influence on social support and subjective well-being.